 In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity;...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Pàgina 22per Samuel Johnson - 1816Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Johnson - 1750 - 296 pàgines
...deliverers and perfecutors, as with beings of another fpecies, whofe actions were regulated upon motif es of their own, and who had neither faults nor excellencies in common with himfelf. But when an adventurer is levelled with the reft of the world, and acts in fuch fcenes of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 326 pàgines
...IN the romances formerly written, every tranfacHon and fentiment was fo remote from all that pafles among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himfelf ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his fphere of activity j and he amufed himfelf... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pàgines
...Jn the romances formerly written, every tranfaction and fentiment was ib remote from all that pafles among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himfelf ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his fphere of activity ; and he amufed himfelf... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...In the romances formerly written, every tranfaction and fentiment was fo remote from all that pafles among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himfelf ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his fphere of activity ; and he amufed himfelf... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pàgines
...In the romances formerly written, every tranfaction and fentiment was fo remote from all that pafles among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himfelf ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his fphere of activity ; and he amufed himfelf... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pàgines
...romances formerly written, every tranfaction and fentiment was fo remote from all that pafTes ampn£ men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himfdt ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond, his Iphere of activity ; and he amufed himfelf... | |
 | 1801 - 342 pàgines
...the romances formerly written, every tranf— a£Hon and fentiment was fo remote from all that pafles among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himfelf j the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his fphere of a£tivity ; and he amufed himfelf... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pàgines
...In the romances formerly written, every tranfaction and fentiment was fo remote from all that pafles among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himfelf; the virtues ard crimes were equally beyond his fphere of activity ; and he amufed himfelf... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pàgines
...with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and perfecutors, as with beings of another fpecie?, whofe actions were regulated upon motives of their own, and who had neither faults nor excelJencies in common with himfelf. But when an adventurer is levelled with the reft of the world,... | |
 | 1803 - 322 pàgines
...combinations of images. In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications td himself ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity ; and he amused himself... | |
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